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An Informed Customer is a Smart CustomerBy TONY FUNDERBURG
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With the number of Chinese tourists visiting Virginia booming in recent years, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced plans to add a new Chinese-language landing webpage to the state’s tourism website. The page will join 15 other language-based landing pages on the site.

The latest to take note of Minnesota’s bubbling craft beer scene? The state’s tourism agency.

This month, Explore Minnesota and the Minnesota Craft Brewer’s Guild partnered for an advertising campaign promoting “Brewcations” to the more than 50 craft breweries now operating in the state. Clint Roberts, the guild’s executive director, said the campaign spans a webpage with a map of breweries and reports on fall colors to brochures placed in visitor centers statewide.

Louisville--ABA's Marketplace 2016 host city--made #8 on Outside Magazine's list of the top 16 places to live. ABA members already love the city for bourbon and horses, but what the population of 605,000 may be most proud of is Louisville’s future. “There are so many cool things in the works,” says one resident.

As many as 1,200 tour buses a day operate in and around the Mall during peak season. But with so few parking spaces for large buses, many of them end up circling city streets for hours, or worse, double parking and disrupting traffic.

The museum, which attracts visitors from around the world to the Finger Lakes region, isn't expecting a big jump in total numbers. But museum officials do anticipate changes in visitor patterns that could have a big impact on the local economy.